July 1st 200k "Unto These Hills"

[Lise]

Great story, as always! On my big tri I'm going to ask myself, "What Would Nanci Do?" when the going gets tough! I love the jumping snake story. Suggests more awareness than I usually attribute to snakes.

It stopped raining here--I'm going to nap for 1/2 hr, then run, and if it's still not raining ---------------------> to the BIKE! L.

[Nanci]

This is the elevation profile for the Horrible Hundred Century. The July Unto These Hills Brevet did all these, and more, and the biggest ones two and three times! Just so you see how "hilly" it was!

[DrBee]

That does not look like fun.

[Jones]

On my big tri I'm going to ask myself, "What Would Nanci Do?" when the going gets tough!

I don't know what I would have done. Well, sucked it up and continued on, I guess. That was all I could do.

Great ride report! Thanks. Jones

[Lise]

Good GRIEF Nanci! I am a flatlander, man. That elevation map makes me want to lie down and take another nap. Whew.

Jones, nice cut and paste. I guess that's the point: Suck it up and continue on. Or, as I said to myself during the marathon last year: It's a marathon. You might as well run.

[KnottedYet]

Wow. That's all I can think of to say. Wow!

[betagirl]

Nanci, great report! I'm happy to see you made it in on time. And that profile looks like my brevet's in WI. So I feel your pain.

Congrats!

[Nanci]

Beta, I'm still appalled by my slowness. I spent some time helping the guy that needed the pump, twice, but what was I supposed to do, just leave him? I thought, the second time, I could have just dropped my pump off with him, but I'd be betting he'd catch me up later and not drop and I wouldn't flat in the mean time.

I didn't waste _any_ time at Controls except the lunch stop- I guess I could have skipped the sit-down lunch. Other than that, I was just riding as hard as I could. Maybe I could have pushed a little more on the flat center section. But it was residential, then raining. When we stopped at the shelter on the trail, that wasn't even for 15 minutes...

Couldn't have wasted more than 20 minutes being lost and missing that Kangaroo that you couldn't see it marked as Kangaroo.

Well, I'll know, if it ever comes up again, bank some time in the beginning and don't stop for lunch.

Nanci

[betagirl]

Hey, at least you didn't have to abandon at mile 108

It was kind of you to help that guy out twice. I always ask people if they're OK and just hope in my head that they'll give the usual "yep" so I can keep going. I agree that murphy's law would have kicked in if you gave him your pump. Maybe carry a spare, not as nice pump, to give to someone in the future if you run into that again? Yeah, more weight to carry. And the 2 times of getting of course didn't help. I'd say you did great all things considered.

Now that it's so "humid" here, I had to wonder while reading your post if those brevets I did that were so miserably cold would be any better now in the humidity and lung soup? Oh how it would be swell to be 70 and 40% humidity for all brevets.